Microsoft now giving away VS 2013

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On Friday, 14 November 2014 at 08:05:49 UTC, Jacob Carlborg wrote:
> Take the new .Net compiler (Roslyn) written in C#. Write a 
> tool, in C#, that uses the compiler, visits the AST and 
> generates D code from it.

Sounds like an interesting project. Maybe someone else will 
create a generic source-to-source compiler kit for various 
languages.

> Run the tool on the .Net compiler and on the tool itself. Then 
> we'll have a .Net compiler and a tool to convert C# to D code, 
> written in D :D

This somehow reminds me of "Gnu's not unix".